AMMTO Announces $12.7 Million to Support Data Collection and Analyses of Current Clean Energy Market and Technology Landscapes | Department of Energy

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO) announced the selection of 20 projects across six U.S. national laboratories to advance innovation and deployment of clean energy technologies critical for climate protection. The collective objective of these projects is to ultimately develop systems of tools that inform actions to accelerate commercialization, increase circularity, and/or increase resilience in clean energy manufacturing supply chains.

These 20 projects will inform the prioritization of AMMTO’s research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) activities through (1) data collection, (2) analysis of these data, and (3) development of tools using these data.

The selected projects span eight topic areas:

This topic supports the development of analysis tools to improve estimates of battery manufacturing costs and commercialization time scales for battery manufacturing start-ups.Number of Selected Projects: 3Total Funding: $2.53 million

This topic supports translational research-collaborative RD&D that translates battery manufacturing technologies at very low Technology/Manufacturing Readiness Level (TRL/MRL) to much higher levels of readiness. In phase one, the lab will conduct a landscape analysis of test bed facilities. In phase two, the lab will develop the framework for a translational battery manufacturing test bed facility. Number of Selected Projects: 3Total Funding: $3.0 million

The projects in this topic will improve national lab-developed software with the goal of increasing the ability to leverage high performance computing (HPC) resources to help U.S. manufacturers solve critical problems through advanced modeling and simulation.Number of Selected Projects: 6Total Funding: $3.0 million*

*Topic Area 3 is co-funded by AMMTO and DOE’s Office of Science’s Advanced Scientific Computing Research program (SC-ASCR), with $1.5M in funding from AMMTO and $1.5M in funding from SC-ASCR.

The projects selected within this topic will determine benchmark metrics for cost, environmental performance, and the technical performance of materials, processes, and/or technologies. These set of benchmark metrics are meant to represent the state-of-the-art (SOTA) of two sectors (industry and research) to enable AMMTO to measure progress and success of its critical materials RD&D portfolio and inform future research direction.Number of Selected Projects: 3Total Funding: $1.6 million

This topic supports an Environmental Justice (EJ) Analysis pilot program with goals of data identification, data collection, decision-making methodology development, and prototype tool development to facilitate EJ harm prevention and/or reduction in communities.Number of Selected Projects: 1Total Funding: $600,000

This topic aims to address data gaps in circular economic life cycle assessments through the development of tools and methodologies that will keep data current, particularly those data that are anticipated to change significantly in the coming years.Number of Selected Projects: 1Total Funding: $500,000

Projects selected within this topic area identify materials for which there is high potential for materials circularity and for which a material flow assessment would fill a gap.Number of Selected Projects: 2Total Funding: $1.0 million

The purpose of this topic is to create a material reuse clearing house to provide the information infrastructure and ecosystem needed to overcome the information deficits that hamper adoption of recycled feedstocks.Number of Selected Projects: 1Total Funding: $500,000

For more information on the topic areas within this funding opportunity, view the full lab call in EERE Exchange.